Let’s do a quick review of the Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) stock chart. After all that negative privacy news Facebook’s chart is peaking above a key support /resistance. Let’s look. You see in the chart below we drew a line of key support/resistance. That’s the level where Facebook either broke out, held or broke down. It’s…
With all the volatility in the equity market lately, it is only natural that investors are having a hard time figuring out what to do. That confusion is clearly starting to show up in surveys of sentiment like the weekly AAII poll. In last week’s update on sentiment, we noted that the percentage of bullish investors had dropped…
(Click on image to enlarge Source: Admiral Markets MT5 with MT5SE Add-on The EUR/GBP has broken through the descending trendline and we can see a potential for bullish continuation. Another cue is the U-shaped bottom that has been formed exactly at W L3 support. 0.8688-98 is the POC zone for potential bounces. Targets are 0.8739 and 0.8770. Only…
Every New York stock exchange trading day I’m posting a daily dividend stock or fund review. I’ll share the three chief qualities of just one equity or fund that could be selected for a dividend stock portfolio I’ve named the Safari to Sweet Success. This week my latest portfolio seeks a high-yield and growing stock…
While many are thinking that the sharp rise in the price of oil is an overnight sensation, the reality is that this is a bull market that has been years in the making. When the price of oil double bottomed near $26 a barrel in 2016, I predicted that it would be a generational low…
Overnight Markets and News Jun E-mini S&Ps (ESM18 -0.10%) this morning are down -0.18% and European stocks are down -0.05%. Higher interest rates are undercutting stocks as the 10-year T-note yield rose to a 4-week high of 2.89% and the 10-year German bund yield climbed to a 4-week high of 0.574%. An increase in inflation…
The Technical Confluences Indicator shows that the recent slide of the USD/CAD breaches a dense cluster of technical support lines at C$1.2615. Below, there are only weaker lines, so the door is open to testing the lows at 1.2550. The dense cluster that has been breached is around 1.2615 which is the convergence of the SMA50-4h, the one-hour low, the…
Deutsche Bank’s chief international economist warns that inflation risk is rising, posing the main threat for the investment outlook. Some analysts disagree, although the Treasury market seems to be pricing in this risk. The implied inflation forecast via the yield spread for the nominal 10-year rate less its inflation-indexed counterpart ticked up to 2.16% on…
After opening the day in green, share markets in India witnessed volatile trading activity throughout the day and ended the day in the green. Sectoral indices were mixed, with stocks in the metal sector and stocks in the capital goods sector leading the gains. At the closing bell, the BSE Sensex stood higher by 95 points (up 0.3%) and the NSE Nifty closed up by…
The super powers in the West are doing what they can to provoke Russia and indirectly China and Iran into a world war. Most people alive today were not adults when WWII started and therefore did not follow the lead up to the war. But today the whole world can watch how the West has…
